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all i want is wilmon endgame but IF we get a well made angsty ending i will EAT THAT SHIT UP honestly

I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SEASON EVERYTHING IS JUST SO PERFECT!!!!!!

i genuinely believe that the people that didnt liked it didnt understood it OR they just dont care abt any other thing thats not romance......

anyways WILMON ENDGAME WHO CHEERED??????

just painted my nails purple (yes. bcs of yr.)

Also, everyone bow to my Queen of Sweden, Felice, who is not only the crown prince‘s closest friend, she also single-handedly brought down Hillerska 😂

As she should.

I believe Wille thought what asking Simon not to post anything would be an invasion of his freedom. But I really don't get why he hasn't said Simon to make all his l accounts private as soon as they got a possibility to talk after the jubilee. Like, Wille knows what it's like when people who have never met you in person judge you and your actions. And instead of talking to Simon about it (it would have been a good opportunity to discuss, for example, the fight that started the whole thing, because it is clear that Wille was not the instigator and mostly defended himself, but people judged and ridiculed him. I would have loved to see Simon realize that he too was one of these people who judged him without knowing. They could also discuss people's reactions to the video they both encountered), he just says "don't pay attention" in between. As if Wille himself really isn't paying attention rather than suffering because of the immense pressure?????

It would be so beautiful if Simon and Wille had a deep conversation about it. Simon would ask how Wilhelm is coping with all that attention, because children in royal families are in the public eye literally from the first days of their lives. Wilhelm could share a few stories about what it was really like. A few stories about how his anxiety manifested itself, perhaps? I know a lot of people were expecting to see how Simon realized Wille's anxiety, but we didn't get even a hint of that.

So many weird choises with the social media plot. It didn't work for me for three reasons.

First: It's stupid

The royal court left Simon and Wille completely alone to deal with the media. The court with a massive PR-team relies on the troubled 16-year-old prince to keep his boyfriend's social media behavior in check. Okay. I guess everyone in the court were busy trying to bring some life into Ludvig while Kristina was too sad and no-one thought to give her pills before episode six 🥲 (good thing that hearing how bad parent she is cured her depression)

I read a theory that leaving Wille to handle Simon's social media was intentional on the court's part to drive a wedge between Wille and Simon. It's a good theory if you believe in the evil monarchy (I guess Lisa does). I didn't see any indication about it in the show though. In episode 3 after Simon posts the First of May photo, Farima tells Wilhelm, "Talk to him. Or we will." This makes me think that it was Wilhelm and Simon in the first place who denied the court to have any contact with Simon. That I can believe at some level.

Simon would want his autonomy, but I don't understand his naivety concerning social media, especially since he recently was a victim of a grave online violation and got unwanted attention because of it. I assumed that he was already laying low in regards to social media after the sex video.

Wille was trying to talk to Simon about not posting with sensitivity and he apologises that Simon must do accomodations because of his Crown Prince status. Why didn't Simon listen at all?

Second: It doesn't fit the narrative

I have a hard time understanding why Simon felt so erased after deleting his social media. It was never established in YR universe that social media meant so much to Simon unlike in the case of Felice, for whom it played a big part in season one. She used it to create a version of herself that she felt other people wanted to see. In YR posting on social media has often been about conveying an image: Felice at the stables despite not wanting to ride, August posing at the gym while suffering from eating disorder. It didn't fit the show's use of social media that an authentic person like Simon would feel so sad about deleting his account.

I got the impression that Simon used little social media. It was implied that it was for example his first song that he posted (he got a comment that was surprised he could sing). So social media hadn't been an outlet where he commonly shared his creativity. Simon seemed to be sorry to delete pictures of people he saw all the time anyway, family and close friends. It's not good storytelling that we didn't see any foreshadowing about Simon's feelings towards social media earlier in the show. 

Third: It breaks my heart

The part that actually makes me cry is that it was established in season one that Wille and Simon truly see each other despite their differences. Wille was the first one in Hillerska to treat Simon friendly and be interested in him and it made Simon feel special and seen. In the same way Simon saw Wilhelm as a person first rather than a prince. Isn't that a big part why we fell in love with their love? Isn't Wille the person that makes Simon feel seen and not strangers in his social media? 😭

There where so many things that created or could have created drama between them; the drugs, August, Micke, their different backgrounds, homophobia, classism. I don't think that Simon posting was a needed storyline in the show.

Sorry to be a complete romantic, but the way Simon looks at Wille from season one—I thought he'd happily toss his phone to the lake to finally be with this boy.